The uncertainty surrounding the convertibility of its currency had provoked a flight to dollars and it had been necessary to do away with the decade-old system of parity between the peso and the dollar, which had led to a 42 per cent drop in currency reserves in 2001.
La incertidumbre respecto a la convertibilidad de la moneda provocó una carrera en pos del dólar, y ha habido que poner fin a la paridad fija del peso respecto del dólar, que se mantuvo durante un decenio, lo que provocó una erosión del 42% de las reservas en divisas en 2001.